Bob

Name: Bob
Author: Zar Ni

Bob captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Zar Ni70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Bob

Best Font Pairings for Bob

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Bob, including combinations with Lorena, IM FELL French Canon PRO and Venus.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Test Bob Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Bob with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Character Set

Bob Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Bob Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Bob, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Bob demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Bob for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Bob small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Bob delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Bob italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Bob bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Bob typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Bob typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Bob'; }

Quick Start

Bob Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Bob:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Bob:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Bob';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bob:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Bob', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Bob', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'bob': ['Bob', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-bob">Your text here</p>

About

The Story of Bob

Zar Ni

Handwriting

Open Source

Bob font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon comic cute letterforms that bounce with simple, friendly personality. Each character displays bouncy shapes with bob character suggesting friendly simplicity and everyman appeal. This cartoon comic cute style suits friendly content, approachable branding, and designs requiring typography with universally friendly character. The Bob reference emphasizes simple friendliness. For designers creating friendly content, Bob delivers appropriate approachable character. Complements friendly palettes.

Bob was designed by Zar Ni. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Bob features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Bob is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Bob

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Bob's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Bob

Best Ways to Use Bob

Best Font Pairings for Bob

Test Bob Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Bob Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

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Inclusive Design

Bob: Accessibility Considerations

Bob's Legibility

How Readable is Bob?

Bob: Comfort in Extended Reading

Bob Accessibility Recommendations

Bob Usage Guidelines

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

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